About the talk

Seabirds are among the most threatened marine vertebrates, facing pressures both on land and at sea. The Bermuda petrel (Pterodroma cahow), once presumed extinct for centuries, exemplifies recovery through sustained conservation efforts. Combining population management with at-sea biomonitoring (tracking data and contaminant analyses) has revealed links between foraging ecology, pollutant exposure, and breeding performance. This integrative approach bridges terrestrial and marine research, providing a framework to identify threats to highly mobile pelagic species.

About the speaker

Letizia Campioni is a behavioural ecologist specialised in long-lived avian species. For more than a decade, she has studied seabirds, with particular interest in the ontogeny of their migratory and foraging behaviour, spatial ecology, and conservation. Her recent work focuses on seabird interactions with human activities at sea, including the exposure to chemical and plastic pollution and other anthropogenic pressures. She is currently contracted at the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC) within the Department of Conservation Biology, where she contributes to investigate the impacts of human activities on seabird trophic ecology and space use patterns in human-impacted environments.